A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. - Antoine de St. Exupery

Sakura and Sasuke are awaiting their second child together, and looking forward to all that entails. Unbeknownst to them, Sarada has been holding back her feelings and fears on the matter. It all comes to a forefront one evening at dinner, with a surprising result. [Companion piece to Unplanned] Takes place between Chapter Thirteen and Chapter Fourteen

"Pregnant?" Sakura Uchiha speaks the word as if it's a foreign concept; as if she isn't a fully qualified medical professional who has not only studied the vast permutations of the human body, but has delivered quite a few babies in her time. And given birth to at least one herself. Shizune laughs nervously. "Congratulations?" A month after the Chūnin Exams and the showdown with the final members of the Ootsutsuki family, Sakura discovers that she and Sasuke are due for an unexpected addition to the family. The discovery leads to a shift in dynamic among the Leaf village's elite shinobi and their children.

Somehow every second they've spent together has further cemented a shared but unspoken knowledge. That they are wasting their time waiting. And so Sasuke, being as practical as ever, proposed the obvious solution based on rather simple criteria: since neither of them can picture a future without the other in it, the obvious resolution is not to try.

Team 7 is sent on a mission to investigate a disturbance outside of the village, where they encounter an unconscious girl in a crater. The mysterious Sarada insists she's a shinobi from the Hidden Leaf trying to rescue her teammates, but something about her is suspicious. When the team discovers she possesses a Sharingan, things become even more unbelievable.